A somewhat luke-warm version of RC Sherriff's play "Journey's End", following a young pilot through his brief active service. The on-ground shenanigans are fairly run of the mill, but there are some excellent aerial action scenes. find out more...

Young Arn, the son of a Swedish nobleman, is exiled to the Holy Land for 20 years as punishment for falling in love with Cecilia, who in turn is banished to a convent. When Arn returns from the Crusades as a proven and chivalrous warrior he is determined to reunite with his love, but first he must fight for his people within the fractured tribal politics of Medieval Sweden.
'Knight Templar' is a well made, high budget, historical romance with a substantial amount of heroic hack and slash find out more...

'Azumi' is a frantic CGI-assisted Japanese period drama from cult director Ryuhei Kitamura starring pop siren Aya Ueto as a teenage assassin who begins the film as the only girl among 10 warriors who have been trained from childhood by Jiji, a grey-bearded samurai. One day, Jiji tells them they must pass a final test before they embark on the mission they have prepared for all these years. He pairs them up and the five that survive, led by Jiji, descend from the mountain that is the only world t find out more...

An epic recounting of the defence of Siam against the invading Burmese by a group of village warriors in 1765. Bang-Rajan is a momentous recreation of courage in the face of a seemingly overwhelming adversary. Lots of action, fighting and heroism; long live the family, long live the peasants and long live Siam. Braveheart does Thailand. find out more...

February 1917, the Russian Tsar has abdicated. Crippling trench warfare against the Germans persists in horrific stalemate and propaganda is rife. Russian officers can do nothing without the prior approval of committees and the army is close to complete degradation. By order of the Russian Provisional Government, attempting to strengthen morale, the Battalion of death" is find out more...

Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite experiencing the horrors of war, he is shocked by the famine's destruction of his homeland and the brutalization of his people and his family. Written by BritishFilms1 find out more...

AD 117; a Roman legion marches north to avenge an attack on a Roman fort by the Picts, but they themselves are attacked, slaughtered and their general captured. A rag-tag collection of survivors are trapped behind enemy lines and, pursued by the blood-thirsty Picts, must make the perilous journey back to safety.
We`re in Apocalypto territory here in this home-grown relentless chase movie. find out more...

One of the very finest epics produced, equally impressive in terms of script and spectacle. Heston is aptly heroic as the 11th Century patriot destined to die in the fight to evict the Moors from Spain, Mann's direction is stately and thrilling and Miklos Rosza's superb score perfectly complements the crisp and simple widescreen images. Sobriety and restraint, in fact, are perhaps the keynotes of the film's success, with the result that a potentially risible finale, in which Cid's corpse is born find out more...

Following on from 'Elizabeth' this sees her a more confident and assured, in firm control of her court, but still troubled by the bothersome Mary Queen of Scots and facing a war with Catholic Spain that few believe she will survive. "Elizabeth The Golden Age" is a beautifully lit, sumptuously dressed dogs dinner of a movie, a fine cast wasted on a shamelessly lazy script and created more in the style of a fashion shoot than a film. The old girl would probably love it mind, because Cate Blanchett find out more...

Robert Jordan is an idealist and with his skills as a demolition expert he finds himself with the opportunity to marry both by helping the anti-fascists during the Spanish Civil War. Amongst the band of freedom fighters Robert joins is Maria, an innocent but impassioned and beautiful young woman. As the group draw towards their ultimate mission so Robert and Maria's friendship develops into something far deeper, intensified by their uncertain fate. For The Whom the Bell Tolls was showered with O find out more...